A Virus Does Not Need as Much Nucleic Acid for the Production

question 1

Multiple Choice

A virus does not need as much nucleic acid for the production of protein as bacteria do because:

• A) viruses use the DNA of the cells that they infect to produce protein.
• B) viruses contain high sequence variation.
• C) there are no introns in the viral genome.
• D) it uses plasmids to synthesize protein instead of DNA.

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